The Old Rectory, School Road, Risby, Bury St Edmunds, IP28 6RQ

The Old Rectory is a nine-bedroom detached house in Risby, Bury St. Edmunds, Bury St Edmunds (IP28 6RQ). It has a recorded floor area of 891 m² (around 9596 sq ft) and construction records dating it to before 1900. The latest certificate (March 2012) shows an F (score 23), near the bottom of the EPC scale. Main heating runs on oil. The latest certificate is from March 2012, so improvements made since then won't be reflected. Period features are noted in the property record.

Held since February 2006 — that's 20 years off the open market, well above the local norm. At 891 m² the property is well over the postcode median (234 m² across 10 EPCs), placing it in the larger end of the local stock. On energy efficiency it sits in the bottom 10% of properties in this postcode — significant headroom for improvement. 9 bedrooms is on the larger side for this postcode, where 4 is the typical count. Today's modelled estimate of £1,056,000 sits 174.3% above the 2006 sale of £385,000. On a £-per-square-foot basis, the last sale (£40/sq ft) was about 79.9% below the postcode norm. 16 planning records sit against the property, 10 approved, 1 refused. Past consents include tree works, meaningful when judging how the property has evolved. The record references conservation-area consent, which constrain future alterations.